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WHY RUN FOR AUTISM?
1 in 31 children in the U.S. is diagnosed with autism. By joining the RUN FOR AUTISM team, you’re supporting OAR’s mission to fund research and resources that help people with autism and their families today.

I will be running the 2026 London Marathon on behalf of the Organization for Autism Research and Team OAR. This organization is near and dear to my heart as a parent who raised two of my five now adult children with Autism. Now, I watch one of my daughters and son-in-law know first-hand the special care of my granddaughter, Kiki, who is level 2 Non-Verbal Autistic. I am pleased to find there are more resources for parents in this generation than I had with my own children. As an adult, I have been diagnosed myself as being on the spectrum which helped enabled me to understand my own successes and challenges in my own life.

Recently resources for autism learning and assistance have been jeopardized by the "Big Beautiful Bill Act" and my own granddaughter as well as thousands of children have now lost necessary resources of much-needed therapy and school assistance. I believe wholeheartedly in the OAR, and I would appreciate any and all help in making sure of an inclusive life for all adults and children on the spectrum. I am just in the beginning phases of requesting donations and am developing a print of my mosaic, "Kiki's Garden" to be created for donors along the way. Again, thank you very much for your help in a cause I greatly believe in. I want my running to mean something.

Here are some of the ways that OAR uses the funds raised by the RUN FOR AUTISM team:

$10 provides a Curriculum in a Box professional development set to general education teachers.
$25 provides 15 copies of A Guide to Safety to families and first responders.
$100 provides the Kit for Kids peer education resource to an entire elementary or middle school.
$150 provides 100 copies of a Life Journey through Autism guidebook sent to a community support group or military installation.
$1,000 provides a research grant for a graduate student studying autism.
$3,000 provides a scholarship for a student with autism to attend college.
$50,000 fully underwrites an applied research pilot study.